Lending rock and alternative music a form of visual expression in sync with their urban environments, Chuck Sperry and Chris Shaw embrace, alter, re-assign meaning and re-contextualize images until they become the medium-the subject emerging, used purposely–irreverently or reverently–to transform ephemeral events and experiences into a lexicon of shared cultural visual memory.
“Shaw and Sperry have made their living creating expressive contemporary prints and posters for both the collector and the general public whose capacity for images is not just at its maximum, but teetering on overload. Dedication to their craft has rewarded them with a mastery of color theory, composition and print design that creates a language that can be seen, perhaps almost heard, amidst a visually competitive, urban environment. Never known for following the consensus of any art establishment, these three have a strict loyalty to their craft, and have become leading innovators of the rock poster art form. Their suspicion and disdain for mainstream American politics often characterizes their approach to making art. With a sincere dedication to a broad public audience, they reflect a social consciousness and draw much from the immediate urban environment.” – Renee de Cossio, curator SFMOMA
In Mind Spring, Sperry creates an icon of the Worldwide Occupy Movement and it’s antecedent in the Arab Spring. The figure wreathed in blooming spring flowers is a representation of the surprising enlightened humanism, the opening mind, the broadened socio-political possibilities which has swept the world in 2011.
Mind Spring
Chuck Sperry, Chris Shaw
New paintings, installations, and limited silkscreen editions
Varnish Fine Art, 16 Jesse Street, #c120, San Francisco, California 94105 – phone: 415-433-4400
Artist Reception: January 14, 2012, 4pm to 7pm
Chuck will be offering new large format works on wood panel, with limited paper and variant paper editions as well. These will be released at the show and then very soon after on his website at a time to be announced. Stay tuned I’ll post these new works, and release times as the show approaches.
Chaos 2011
22 x 33
8 color silkscreen on archival cream paper
Edition of 50
Signed and Numbered
Cosmos 2011
22 x 33
8 color silkscreen on archival cream paper
Edition of 50
Signed and Numbered
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